With worsening indices, Brazil exceeds 620 thousand deaths by Covid

Brazil recorded 50 deaths from coronavirus this Sunday (9) and reaches 620,031 lives lost and 22,522,310 people infected since the beginning of the pandemic.

The moving average of deaths is now 123 and, as a result, has increased by 28% compared to data from two weeks ago.

The country has recorded 23,504 cases of Covid. As a result, the moving average of infections rose to 33,146 per day, up 669% from the two-week data.

The spread of the super contagious omicron variant of Covid added to the holiday season may be factors that explain the recent jump in cases of the disease. It is worth remembering, however, that in December the country suffered a cyberattack that caused notification problems and possible data damming.

The country data, collected up to 8 pm, are the result of collaboration between leaf, UOL, O Estado de S. Paulo, Extra, O Globo and G1 to gather and disclose the numbers related to the new coronavirus pandemic. The information is collected by the consortium of press vehicles daily with the state Health Departments.

Vaccination data against Covid-19 are also among those affected, with several states without updates, by the attack on the ministry’s page. In any case, the information was at least partially updated in 9 states.

Brazil registered 81,721 doses of vaccines against Covid-19 this Sunday. According to data from the state health departments, there were 11,309 first doses and 30,598 second doses. In addition, 39,401 booster doses were recorded.

In all, 161,642,302 people received at least the first dose of a vaccine against Covid in Brazil. Added to the single doses of Janssen’s vaccine against Covid, there are already 144,322,726 people with both doses or with one dose of Janssen vaccine.​

Thus, the country already has 75.78% of the population with the 1st dose and 67.66% of Brazilians with both doses or with one dose of the Janssen vaccine.

Even those who received both doses or one dose of the Janssen vaccine should maintain basic care, such as wearing a mask and social distancing, experts say.

The initiative by the consortium of press vehicles occurred in response to the attitudes of the Jair Bolsonaro government (without a party), which threatened to withhold data, delayed newsletters about the disease and took information from the air, with the interruption of the disclosure of the totals of cases and deaths. In addition, the government released conflicting data.